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Lucy Delap
@LDelap
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Historian of feminisms, modern Britain, labour and disability. I teach at the University of Cambridge and Murray Edwards College
Off to Ghent today, to talk about #ecofeminisms in the #1980s; and how my assumptions about #green and #feminist activists being fellow travellers were undermined by routine, unchallenged sexual #violence in the mixed sex #peace camps
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Really enjoyed the chance to discuss my research with BBC History Extra, on struggle and empowerment through labour for intellectually disabled people in the twentieth century - and why IQ is less signficant that you might think...
https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/learning-disabilities-history-podcast-lucy-delap/
@ScientistSoph You're welcome. It's from the newly archived Clarity & Co. collection at Brunel university library
@ScientistSoph Mattress making was one of the most common occupations within sheltered workshops employing disabled people - though they also competed with prison labour in the same field. Pictured below a worker of Clarity & Co, British employer of blind & disabled workers from 1854
I was ten when the Secret Diary of Adrian Mole came out, and I devoured it. BUT was profoundly confused about who I should identify with. Pandora? Bert? If you're also troubled by these questions, join me tonight at the Cam university library book club to revisit adolescence in the 1980s
The Really Popular Book Club: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend | Cambridge University Library
The Really Popular Book Club is Cambridge University Libraries' book group. Everyone is welcome to come and discuss a really popular book with the group, library staff, and an expert on the novel. Hosted on Zoom, the book club is completely free and open to everyone, people attend from all over the world. The Really Popular Book Club celebrates the huge range of books at
Why history can tell contemporary policy makers a great deal about inclusive workplaces for people with intellectual disabilities.
#disability #history @histodons
After around 10 years of archival detective work, I couldn't be more excited to share my newly published article on the working lives of people with intellectual #disabilities in twentieth century Britain
#histodons
https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad043
#histodons
https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad043
Political blackness was a powerful tool in the late twentieth century, and still powerful today. But we've forgotten some other concepts that were deeply significant for historical actors - in this #IWD post I explore ideas of being a 'third world woman' in the 1980s #feminist debates about race and #racism. @histodons
https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/feminism/third-world-feminisms-in-spare-rib-magazine/
https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/feminism/third-world-feminisms-in-spare-rib-magazine/
